the centurion
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the centurion in charge of the execution
in the texts
Letters
Unnamed centurion whose faith caused his servant's healing.
And if anyone, through much devotion, invites you into his own house for many reasons, let such a man learn to follow the faith of the centurion, who, when Jesus was hastening to him for the sake of a healing, declined, saying:
On Anger
The officer in charge of the execution, who stops it upon the comrade's return but is subsequently ordered executed by Piso as well.
For he ordered the very centurion who had brought the condemned man back to be led off.
Then the centurion in charge of the execution bade the guardsman sheathe his sword, and led the condemned man back to Piso, to restore Piso's innocence to him;
Adversus Marcionem
A Gentile military officer whose faith Christ praises as exceeding any found in Israel.
Likewise, the faith of the centurion being extolled, it is incredible if he professed that he had found no such faith even in Israel, to whom the faith of Israel did not pertain.